Update: January, 2015 — A full version of the book is available on my newer website. You can also download Pick Waltz as pdf and gp5 file at this site.

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While browsing through a local bookstore a few months ago I stumbled upon a real find — that is for someone who enjoys a ukulele perspective.

The book, “The Ukulele as a Solo Instrument, C Notation: A Collection of Ukulele Solos” has a copyright of 1916 with many of the compositions by N.B. Bailey and Keoki E. Awai. Price back in 1916 was $1.00. It was a quite a bit more expensive when I bought it ninety-four years later!

Many of the songs in the book have had more friendly interpretations of them created such as the famous “Aloha Oe” but I have not seen the “Pick Waltz” by Bailey online, so here it is. Click on the image below to get a pdf that you can print.

“Pick Waltz” is one of those pieces that if/when you master it you know your Ukulele flexibility will have been much improved.

If anyone takes the time to enter it into Guitar Pro, please let me know as we love to have the tabs in our more portable iPhone format of Tab Toolkit.

Update: Thanks to Josh for the gp5 (Guitar Pro 5) format for Tab Toolkit. You can download the gp5 file now.